Day 120 – 30/03/2013 – Locke Stream Hut to Deception River

Ben and Dylan headed off before me, then I left the hut. I followed dry Taramakau River and walked on its bed. I reached the Kiwi Hut where I had lunch then kept going. Once at the confluence of Otira River and and Taramakau River, I took the flood track undulating in the forest and left it behind me to walk on the river bed an easiest way than the flood track to get to a footbridge. I entered the Deception Valley, the Deception River was really low and the forecast good enough to pitch my tent on a terrace close to the river.